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ABA Family Legal Guide

Law and the Workplace

On the Job

Discrimination Based on Gender

  1. Must an employer provide health insurance coverage for pregnancy?
  2. Must the employer's health insurance pay for abortions?
  3. May employers provide health-care coverage for dependents to married male workers but deny it to married female workers?
  4. Is there any exception under Title VII that allows the employer to take sex into account in providing fringe benefits?
  5. May an employer refuse to hire an applicant because she is pregnant, or fire a worker who becomes pregnant?
  6. May an employer require a worker to take leave when she becomes pregnant?
  7. When an employee takes time off to give birth to a child, will she get her old job back?
  8. Is an employer required to give workers maternity/paternity leave?
  9. May employers fire female workers who get married?
  10. Since actuary tables show that women live longer than men, can employers provide different retirement and pension plans for each sex?
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